Year: 2012

President Obama’s current chief of staff and former director of the Office of Management and Budget, Jack Lew, does not know how many votes it takes to pass a budget in the United State Senate, judging by interviews Sunday. Lew made a series of factual blunders on the Sunday talk show circuit.

Left-wing billionaire George Soros told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria Sunday that he has funded political causes “on principle, not for pursuit of my private interests,” and that “I have always done it very openly.” Neither claim withstands scrutiny.

White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew on Sunday said that Senate Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is justified in his continued refusal to vote on a budget resolution, incorrectly stating that Republicans could simply block the measure by filibuster.

The president and COO of Government and Public Affairs for Koch Companies Public Sector LLC responded to harsh Democratic attacks on Koch Industries in a statement Friday, Politico reports: Philip Ellender, president and COO of Government and Public Affairs for Koch Companies Public Sector LLC said in the statement: “Apparently, the President and his allies do …

An Occupy protestor slammed President Obama for doing “absolutely nothing, zero, to help people who are under foreclosure.” “This is an outrage,” Mark Mason said during an interview on Iranian Press TV. “We’re all aware that this is an election year the presidency is up for election here in November. We’ve had Barack Obama president now …

The House Armed Services Committee’s investigative branch disclosed in a report yesterday that 27 percent of the 600 detainees who have been released from Gitmo, a U.S. detention center based in Cuba, have returned to their terrorist ways, raising questions about the Obama administration’s decision to potentially release several imprisoned Taliban fighters.

Chris Matthews criticized Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney in a Friday appearance on Morning Joe as being out of touch with American values and emotions, saying, “He doesn’t seem to be one of us.” Matthews’ criticism of Romney comes just one day after he expressed outrage, on his own program, at Republicans who have portrayed …